July 21, 2016
10:00 AM (EDT)

News Release Number: STScI-2016-28

NASA's Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier

July 21, 2016: Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the TV series "Star Trek" has captured the
public's imagination with the signature phrase, "To boldly go where no one has gone
before." The Hubble Space Telescope simply orbits Earth and doesn't "boldly go" deep
into space. But it looks deeper into the universe than ever before possible to explore
the fabric of time and space and find the farthest objects ever seen. This is epitomized
in this Hubble image that is part of its Frontier Fields program to probe the far
universe. This view of a massive cluster of galaxies unveils a very cluttered-looking
universe filled with galaxies near and far. Some are distorted like a funhouse mirror
through a warping-of-space phenomenon first predicted by Einstein a century ago.